Malaysian at FIDE Oct08 Rating List
Visit FIDE.com for the full list of Malaysia’s active rated players.
Along that we have several new rated players from Penang, namely:
Loo Swee Leong, 2110
Wong Hao, 2013
Lee Hai Wen, 1698
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Topalov Top FIDE Oct08 Rating List
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2791 10 1975
2 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2787 9 1977
3 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2786 50 1969
4 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2786 31 1990
5 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2783 10 1969
6 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2772 16 1975
7 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2757 23 1982
8 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2751 23 1987
9 Leko, Peter g HUN 2747 16 1979
10 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2737 39 1983
11 Wang, Yue g CHN 2736 23 1987
12 Adams, Michael g ENG 2734 16 1971
13 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2732 12 1978
14 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2731 16 1985
15 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2730 24 1990
16 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2729 22 1974
17 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2727 24 1976
18 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2726 34 1972
19 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2720 26 1983
20 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2719 27 1968
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Alexandra Kosteniuk, Women’s World Champion!!
The final round of the championship had just being concluded by Kosteniuk beating Hou YiFan with 2.5-1.5 when she repeats checks. Alexandra Kosteniuk is thus the New Women’s World Champion!!
Official website: http://nalchik2008.fide.com/
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IM Mas to gain 53.8 elo points
The July - September 2008 FIDE rating period is coming to an end and the Oct08 list will be published in another 14 days.
Leading among Malaysian is none other than IM Mas, Hafizulhelmi who is set to gain 53.8 elo points on October 2008.
Hopefully this gain will boost his confident further in getting becoming our first GM.
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Time for Training
Major school examinations are just around the corner and tournaments have to give way for the time being. For those who have lost touch with schooling activities, we are having our Primary Standard 6 UPSR exam now and Secondary Form 3 PMR will follow while SPM and STPM will start in a month’s time.
What should a chess player do during this period if no travel to tournaments in foreign countries is possible?
I am not a big fan of online blitz games so naturally I do not play blitz too often. But when someone do not play for too long, that someone will be “rusty”. What should I do to at least keep myself used to tactics? Solving puzzles!!
There are currently 93 tacticians registered under the flag of Malaysia at the Chess Tactics Server compare to less than 50 accounts when I started my first puzzle almost 2 years ago.
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Malaysians Rated
2 parallel events during the Malaysian Chess Festival, the Malaysia Open and AmBank Chess Challenge are both rated and a quick glance at among our rated active Malaysian players, we have following players: (view the reports at FIDE.com)
- IM Mas, Hafizulhelmi will top the Malaysia rating list by having 2385 + 34.4 rating changes.
- FM Lim Yee Weng will be second with 2367 + 29.4 which makes him a few points from 2400.
- Leung Wun Man will lose some 30+ points with 2214 - 31.95
- While the ever improving Justin Ong would gain another 36.3 elo points to be 2008 + 36.3
- The player to watch is the 9 years old Yeoh Li Tian who will gain 50 points and become 1905 + 50.25.
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Carlsen Top the Live Rating List
The 18 years old Magnus Carlsen is leading the Chess Grand Slam Final with 1 point ahead of Topalov and his is now number 1 on the Live Rating List.
Rank Name Rating Change Born
1 Carlsen 2796,1 +21,1 1990
2 Anand 2790,4 -7,6 1969
3 Morozevich 2787,0 -1 1977
4 Topalov 2785,8 +8,8 1975
5 Ivanchuk 2781,9 +0,9 1969
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